redblooded

I've never been a fan of starwars games. Nor was I a fan of the new movies (and George Lucas doesn't deserve more of my money after those plus his re-imagining of the original movies). I didn't want to play for those reasons, but I also took a look at some gameplay footage a friend from my WoW playin days was trying to get my excited about and it just looked sooooo boring. Plus my old guild's website went offline a few months ago, but there only seemed like 2 people were even interested at all before it did. Certainly not enough interest to play for me as I only ever get sucked into mmorpgs by other people.

http://en.wikipedia...._%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia....ki/NarusInsight http://news.discover...acy-111203.html http://www.wired.com...s/2006/04/70619 http://yro.slashdot....e-spies-for-nsa So yeah, they all let the government in. Even if they didn't the internet backbone providers do and it's fairly trivial to reconstruct unencrypted data they capture. Including stuff like emails, IMs, etc. Edit: and don't even need to be the government, facebook has had ways for anyone to see anyone elses private photos. http://yro.slashdot....private-photos. Also if you know the actual URL of a photo you can always view it, even it if is "deleted" or "private." So it's not just corporate and government surveillance you are submitting to if you are using it. It's been anyone for months and everything you ever submit to that site they keep forever.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Quality source there. Maybe Buddha Jesus there can tell us the latest fashions in tin-foil hat attire as well... Ah, but does the Washington Post have Buddha Jesus on staff? I think not... Okay, let me start by saying I think you have incredible posts 99% of the time. Unfortunately this isn't one of them. You seem to have no idea who is in that picture and unless you are a huge computer geek I understand the ignorance and he does look a bit hippy-ish (because he is). Richard Stallman (guy in picture) is the founder of GNU... I know that means nothing to most people, but basically he's one of the original coders of GNU/Linux. He does have some out-there ideas, like all software should be free, but he also backs it up as basically the figurehead and founder of the free software movement (along with Linus Torvalds) of which GNU/Linux is the lynchpin. When it comes to computers he knows a hell of a lot, regardless if he looks like a hippy (most computer nerd hobbyists did when computers took off, good old Steve Jobs included). Also he's 100% right, Facebook is mass surveillance. That is their product... tracking everything you do on the web and data-mining it for advertisers. Tricking everyone into freely giving their information to them just fuels it. The interface you see if you have an account there is simply a tool for them to collect a profile of information about you. Every time you visit a site with a "like" or "facebook connect" logged in or not facebook is tracking you so they can better target ads to you and/or sell that information to advertisers. Every time you sit on their site they know what you viewed, how long, who you contact, comments you leave, etc...

I'm sorry but no. First of all were I a player on OSU's squad the first plane crash was when I was 12, 6 years or more before I ever set foot on campus. Does that affect me in any way? no, if someone mentions it they'd get the standard "that was tragic" response but I wouldn't have known any of those people, and likely would have had nearly 0 interaction with a current women's basketball coach. Death of close family members and friends affects people deeply. Death of colleagues makes people maybe ponder their own mortality a bit, but I don't buy the "they were devastated and to top it all off had to FLY the next day" horsecrap excuse for laying an egg at Iowa State. To try and use someone's death as an excuse for a football loss when it wasn't a member of the team is ridiculous. You realize earlier in the season one of the OSU assistant coaches lost their wives (I'm pretty sure it was the night before or of the Tulsa game) and that assistant wasn't there. A game that was delayed till after midnight due to weather. What did they do to Tulsa? Think they were puddle jumping 100 people to Ames? It's a bullcrap excuse and frankly the Coach (and the others) that died deserve better then people trying to blame an unrelated Football loss on their deaths to cry about the "unfair" BCS.

You realize a playoff that doesn't include an absurd number of teams will still hear the same arguments and politicking from the teams on the fringe every year? (and adds the argument about single elimination tourneys sucking and bad games) It's in teams like OSU's interest to complain about the system, now, but if they'd have beaten ISU they wouldn't have to cry about the BCS. It's in ESPN's interest to cry about the system, they'd get more games to televise. It wouldn't it solve the rematch scenario, in fact it'd be more common as LSU and Bama surely would have been on opposite ends of that bracket. It won't give more legitimacy to the national champion either as teams that didn't get the at large bids would be arguing about that, still. The argument last week from ESPN seemed to be "if we had a playoff instead of only two teams being alive, we'd have 30 on the final weekend." Which is idiotic. That completely devalues the fact that you have to bring it each and every week in college football during the regular season to control your own destiny. There'd be some bad teams getting a shot at a playoff. How is one 9-3 team more deserving then another 9-3 team? same problem we have now. It doesn't solve anything, just makes the season mean less. OSU had their shot, they played awful at Ames. They didn't do that they'd be in the game (see like a playoff during the regular season)... They'd also be the argument LSU would use to try and stake a "best team ever" claim because of the absolute freaking woodshed beating they'd lay on the pokes. OSU has nothing to whine about. They put themselves in the position they are in. They lost late to ISU. tl;dr: No CFB playoff. Go watch the NFL. If the BCS goes away I hope it is back to the old bowl system.

all time great teams don't have games that come down to having to luck out that an opponent's kicker is off multiple times and a field-goal to win in overtime. They roll their entire schedule by a touchdown or two. That's my point.

Hiesmanpundit is predicting RG3, so maybe the idiot voters are going to get it right this year since it's only qbs and runningbacks. I still voted Richardson, because they never do seem to get it right.

No, they beat Alabama. They didn't lose to them. They beat the #2 ranked team in the country. Must not have seen the same game I did, because Alabama beat Alabama by not having a kicker.

They lost to Alabama, I mean sure they lucked it out in overtime because Alabama apparently forgot to recruit a kicker. The 97 huskers kicked butt too, but lucked their way through a win in mizzouri. You don't see them mentioned in the "greatest ever." Anyone with perspective wouldn't be putting LSU there either, they're good, with an absolutely great defense. Not an especially powerful offense and survived Alabama on sheer luck that they didn't find an Alex Henery among their kickers. On a side note, ESPN of course is trying to brand them as one of the all-time greats. They have a vested interest in stiring that pot for webpage hits and TV viewers, not to mention drumming up more viewers for the national championship game and keeping their massive investment in the SEC paying off.

Come on. I don't care either way but T. Boone whining is worth more then not having a rematch. Throw more money around old fart, maybe that will erase your program going to ISU and getting beat. I hate the SEC as much as the next northerner, but they (OSU) would get destroyed by either Alabama or LSU.

If ever there was a team that could slow down Oregon (besides LSU/Alabama), it's Wisconsin and their o-line/running attack. It's probably the Best defense against that team, keeping them off the field. Also James as a RB is just fast, he's not big or powerful. If he's slowed down he's ineffective, if he gets space he can outrace just about anyone. Oregon's passing game hasn't looked as good as last years.

You don't go for a punt block down 3 with under 2 minutes left when a five yard penalty will give them a first down and your team will probably have good field position anyways. It was something that will be called every time someone gets under the kickers leg. MSU did that to themselves, it's not on officials or acting. That's a position nobody should have even been near under those circumstances. They had their opportunities to get after punts earlier in the game and that wasn't the point for it, obviously. Can't blame anyone else but MSU. It was a great game. Congrats to the Badgers.

It's been a semi-strange season. With only two or three really good teams and all with weaknesses. I think between the conference moves, the Wisconsin blowout, penn state scandal, the defense, and not making it to the championship it has been nearly constant distraction or disappointment from the start of the season... It just kinda wears on the excitement level. Nationally? I don't care about that much unless the huskers are in the running so I don't know that there is much difference this year, regardless of the probable rematch. Bowl game, then next year.

Generally if you actually enjoy a game it doesn't really matter if you get onto a bad random team you can still find away to amuse yourself even if you cant carry a team (plus it's a game, you can always turn it off and ditch out). However if I were trying to figure out which one to buy using that criteria the first thing I'd do is see what my friends were playing most, on what hardware, and just go with that... assuming I thought I could stand the game. If I didn't know, I'd buy it from somewhere I could return it. It just kinda depends on your preference, and the preferences of people you want to play with. I don't really know much more about TVs and specific games. I'd imagine at 480p or whatever resolution tube TVs are you probably wouldn't notice that much difference between graphics, but that probably depends on the TV. Plus I haven't used a console for a fps since halo one, and haven't used one for anything but a htpc to play videos/stream over the network in over a year.

It's against a sucky old miss and a sucky auburn. The SEC is the best conference at the top, but it's not especially deep. Robert Griffen took baylor, that's right BAYLOR, and made them a team you don't want to play and knocked off OU. (what would've been the last couple years if we would've won the recruiting battle for him?) There's no question in my mind he (Griffin) should be the frontrunner. The rest is ESPN hype machine for Richardson because they love Alabama and Andrew Luck as some sort of amends for not giving it to Peyton Manning. If you watched Stanford tonight you also saw them trying to lobby Matt Barkley from USC, a team that might as well wear ESPN logos on their jerseys like it's NASCAR, which is just ridiculous.

Hot can get guys to overlook a lot of crap, that's why some wives end up not having common sense or knowing when to stfu. She might be a cougar now but you can tell she was probably extremely hot when younger and probably tolerated a lot more (with rolled eyes) then she should have been.

No, one of the things that was so great is they actually had great bowl tie-ins. The big 12 has horrible bowls they are tied into.

It's a franchise, of course they aren't going to massively change the game play, especially for multiplayer. For every one person that complains that they didn't they'd have to deal with a massive crapstorm from tons more if they did and they'd sell less every time they changed as people would stick with whatever they liked. See steam and CS&CS:S numbers where it's a fairly even split even with source being prettier but with different physics, recoil and hit registration... or quake where quake1 had much more of a diehard following then q2 which had less of a following then quake3 yet quake1 is still slightly active today and almost-quake3 is still apparently making money as quake live. It is what it is, business, MW found their nitch. I assume it's people with an IQ sub 80 that dream about being in bad 80s esque action movies, or 10-16 year old boys, but whatever. It works for them.

MW3 was fine. Pretty much exactly what I expected, dunno about online because after MW2 and having to deal with tons mic spamming morons and their horrible server system I won't play another one multiplayer. I liked the game play more then BF3 and at least they sort of dialed back the cut-scene crap-fest that was black ops, but every part that is scripted unplayable, video cut-scene, or RIGHT MOUSE - LEFT MOUSE - HIT BUTTON makes me want to punch a developer. Honestly quake (world/3/live) and counterstrike kick the crap out of those games for online play and they are 10+ years old. In single player I want to play games, not feel like I'm being led around by the nose in a bad movie script. That's one reason portal(1&2) were so good, the cut-scenes story was almost all voice acting while you are still playing the game, with only a few scripted unplayable moments otherwise it's pretty much just "hey, here's a level, go figure it out." Not dot's with "follow," directional arrows, and characters telling you "you're going the wrong way" all the way though a game. It's insulting how dumbed down most things are now.

http://msn.foxsports...kong-Suh-112511 I wish these idiots would quit talking sh#t about their Husker teammates. I prefer Suh to Slauson right now... Pretty sure just about everyone always has prefered Suh to Slauson and I'm sure his jets organization would too given the option to have Suh but release Slauson... You know what, you call a guy dirty for two seasons strait, he'll be dirty. The NFL is basically the WWF anyways, full of sissy quarterbacks and receivers that are pretty much untouchable and a hype machine that is basically trying to manufacture TMZ like drama. They got what they wanted, a villain. Doesn't matter that we all know he's a pretty smart, decent, and generous guy.

Coaches have gone to other programs to learn what and how they do things forever, it's no different, just probably a lot less detailed when you fly in for a broadcast and get a quick Q&A.

Self reporting has nothing to do with anything and frankly since Pryor was smart enough to get run out of town (eventually) OSU's going to be getting off pretty easy, or at least a lot easier then if that idiot had to stick around and answer questions about the cars, booster autograph business etc. The program got off on a technicality on that one, hes gone so he didn't have to talk to the NCAA again... Congrats. You're right, absolutely none of the rumors of recruiting down south have ever proven to be true and documented. These are the teams that Texas and Oklahoma consider so dirty they won't even consider joining the same league and tried to keep A&M from the SEC for 20 years to keep them out of Texas recruiting which wasn't sparkling clean in the first place. It's not the SEC that has had coaches detail how the boosters run things down there after getting canned. It's not a direct in-state competition to Miami that had a billionaire bankrolling its players during Meyer's tenure. It's not a program that had a impressive number of arrests under his watch.

I don't think you guys have anything to worry about regarding Mullen. From all accounts he's a guy who just fell in love with Nebraska. Perception and reality are often at odds. Which is at odds here? OSU, currently facing failure to monitor, that just last summer had their returning starting quarterback flee to the supplemental draft because he was going to have to answer some hard questions to not get his already 5 game suspension for extra benefits extended. Plus 4 other players suspended those 5 games, for the same reason, and a couple getting extended as well? Or Meyer? who had the best athletes in the dirty south for a number of years? I'm sure those kids were all turning down money from the other schools for the honor of playing for Meyer and the Gators before he was known for anything but Utah. Not only were they competing with the SEC, but this would have been when that fake billionaire ponzi scheme guy was financially backing the hurricanes. Perception of Meyer nationally is good, that he's a smart clean coach, maybe he is I don't know. I don't trust a single one of the SEC schools though.

$, $, $, $... $. While I'm completely serious about the sec paying players, Chizik fell bass ackwards into the exact right place at the lucky time (the other auburn coaches going undefeated have all seemed to have sanctions involved that kept them from national titles). Saban was actually improving MSU.

Seriously? isn't it like year two with an improving team?